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4576. EPIPHANY

Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12, Ephesians 3:1-13

Bulletin Aid

... :1-6 Theme: God's glory is seen as a light Call to Worship Pastor: We have seen God's glory revealed in his only. begotten Son, our Savior. People: God's revelation in Christ is indeed a light that shines in our darkness. Pastor: What a marvelous gift God has given to our world. Let us rejoice and sing his praises! People: Our hearts thrill and rejoice as we come to worship our Lord! Collect Father of all nations: You have given yourself through your only begotten Son, as a radiant light revealing the path ...

4577. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:1-11, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Bulletin Aid

... your Son Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Forgive us, Father, for our sins which separate us from you, making us your enemies. Let your Son be our Savior; that by his grace we can be made your friends, and enjoy your gift of salvation. Strengthen us in our discipleship to remain firm in our faith, and loyal in our service. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Hymns "Amazing Grace" "Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed" "I Am Coming to the Cross" "I Gave My Life for Thee" Gospel ...

4578. First Sunday in Lent

Matthew 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-21, Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

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... has come; and through him, redemption can be ours. People: Our trust is in Christ, who transforms our sinful nature into wholeness by the redemptive forgiveness of God's love for his children! Collect O Loving Father, whose divine nature has come to man in the gift of your Son, redeeming our sinful nature: Clothe us with the nature of Christ; that we may grow in his likeness, and discard our likeness to Adam. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession There is a struggle within us, Father, and ...

4579. Jesus' Invitation To Drink Living Water

John 3:1-21

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... easy for us to go through our ritual of worship, and contiue in a lifestyle of sin. Forgive us for worship which is artificial, preventing us from drinking the life-giving water of salvation. Reveal our sins to us, and then cleanse us; that we may be refreshed with your gift of new life in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whose name we pray. Amen. Hymns "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" "Jesus Is Tenderly Calling" "My Hope Is Built" "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus"

4580. Third Sunday in Lent

Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

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... to help us live by his Spirit that we may be pleasing to him. Collect Almighty God, whose Son gives hope to those condemned by your laws: Make us children who desire to have our minds controlled by your Spirit instead of our human nature, that we may receive your gift of life and peace. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We want to be your children, Father; but we seem possessed by our human nature. We know we have not kept your laws, but we also fail to live by your Spirit. Forgive us ...

4581. Palm Sunday

Philippians 2:1-11, Matthew 27:32-44, Matthew 27:27-31, Isaiah 50:1-11

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... , fulfilling his role as our Savior: Give us hearts responsive to his message; that we may receive him as Lord and Savior, and give him the honor and praise which is his. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We bless you, O God, for the gift of your Son. But the praise we feel now is not always the attitude of our hearts. Our everyday routines wear down our spiritual enthusiasm, and we are like those who are insensitive to the excitement of Christ as Lord. Forgive us for sporadic faith, and short ...

4582. Good Friday

Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27, Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... : Jesus' death gives us redemption because God sent him to save us from sin. And Jesus was faithful to that mission. People: Our hearts are heavy because of our Lord's suffering. But we rejoice at the same time, because our Lord's death brings God's gift of new life. Collect Father in heaven, who grieves over the sins of humanity, yet whose love provides forgiveness in the atoning death of your Son: Convict us of our sins against your love, and convince us of your desire to forgive, that our Lord's death ...

4583. A Claim to a Crown

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

George Bass

... World War II be allowed to generate an unholy fear in us? Does God have a viable plan in Christ’s Second Coming, a plan we can rely on? Does faith in Christ sustain us in the face of a sure and certain death? If God has given us a gift of grace by postponing Jesus’ return until some later time, we had better not spend that time quaking in fear of death or worrying continually about the possible end of humanity and all other life. Jim Klobuchar wrote about the illness and death of a man, Russ Skoe, who ...

4584. A Manger is Christ’s Cradle

Luke 2:1-7

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... meaning in our hearts. We have sung the angels’ song this night, we go to his Table, remembering his birth in that manger-cradle, to greet him whom we know as Lord. And Christ himself, the crucified and risen One, the Savior of the world, comes to us with the gift of himself. We join the shepherds, as we leave his Table, and go out to tell the world the good news - Christ is born, the Savior of us all! And that, indeed, is a reason for rejoicing.

4585. Deliverance by a Dream

Matthew 2:13-18

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... a moment, he heard what Radar had sensed many seconds before the noise was within the range of human hearing. That’s why he was called Radar. Perhaps Joseph should have been called "Dreamer," or something akin to that, because he seems to have had a similar gift. And, since he took his dreams seriously, Jesus’ life was saved when Joseph acted upon that dream and took Mary and Jesus to Egypt. By this time, Joseph must have been on rather intimate terms with the angel, who came to him in his dreams. There ...

4586. Jesus - the Holiest Name

Luke 2:21-40

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... learned this when they got to the font for my brother’s baptism. He was Ted to them, and they wanted him to be baptized as Ted. But the pastor refused their request on the grounds that Ted was a nickname; he insisted that he had to be named Theodore - "gift of God" - and he was. He was sickly as an infant, and a family physician told my grandparents, "He won’t live to be a year old." But he did. Theodore became his legal, as well as his baptismal, name. But he was always known as Ted and, years later ...

4587. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... and the rest of his story, that a nine-year-old child should develop a game aimed at stopping war. Michelle Alexander, it was recently reported, has developed a board game that she calls "Give Peace a Chance" as a project in her class for gifted children in Fresno, California. It is a game of the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and is won by the country (player) who "declares itself a nuclear-free zone." While the game is tilted toward compromise by these powers, it contains positive ...

4588. Desert Springs

Isaiah 35:1-10

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... who objected to his raw, deep presentation of the truth. In Luther’s day, too, many preferred the wilderness to the sinking of God’s wells deep within the heart. In Luther’s commentary on this section of the prophet Isaiah, the intensity of his gift of faith rises like heat waves in the desert. As a spring flows forth in moistening streams, so this church, which was desert, should gush out in streams of the teachings of the Gospel, always one stream leaping from another into one city and then ...

4589. The Glance of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... . Apart from his birth, we are born only to death, injury, and despair. His birth becomes ours only by faith. God’s eternal glance in our direction opens us when we are shut down with inertia and illumines me when I prefer to be in the dark. By this gift of faith, our hearts are opened to receive his undying loyalty. This Christmas, may the birth of our Lord Jesus give us a new sense of his peace precisely where we feel at war. May God’s long, loyal glance our way give us the strength to say: "Lord ...

4590. Tears in Raniah

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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... have them. When a friend dies or goes away, we feel loss. When a job ends or a career changes, we feel dislocation. When young people leave home for college or career, they feel exiled. There is no living without exile. That is where the Old Testament and God’s gift of faith come in. In the days of the Prophet Jeremiah, God sent warning after warning to his people that Exile was coming. It had to. God had a purpose in sending it. Jeremiah was just a young man when he stood up in Jerusalem to warn of the ...

4591. Pentecost’s Promises Judith Ann Cobb

Isaiah 44:1-5

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... , from things sun dried to freeze dried. They view a world that moves fast, and they are not able to run. And to the aged, the promises of this Pentecost are valuable, because our Lord will pour out his Spirit upon all descendants and his blessings will be a gift to them. Nothing will separate them from the love of God in Christ Jesus - neither things present, nor things past, not things to come. They will never live alone for "if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. We are ...

4592. Jacob’s Dream - A Dream Come True W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 27:1-40

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... the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and all your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves ... (Genesis 28:13-14) Here we have the undeserved gift of God to all people, the four corners of the earth, all points of the compass, even from the rising to the setting of the sun, even to such a rascal as Jacob. Therefore, he, Jacob, is recipient of the promise and becomes one of those in that oft-repeated ...

4593. An Easier Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... his cross. Then, as I denied even knowing Jesus the night of his arrest, I thought I could escape my cross. But I learned that spending my life trying to escape God's purposes for me would be missing life itself. It's hard to learn that life is the gift received by dying and living in faith, but it's true. If I only were to wear a cross (as I am wearing now), dispensing with it as I please, it really is not my cross. It is mere decoration. If the real cross I bear, however, is the way ...

4594. The Family Reunion

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Glenn L. Borreson

... company recover from their initial shock, they love him for it. They remember who they are. They feel a new glimmer of pride in the name again. And they know what it means to be family. We are the family of Christ. We bear his name, "Christian." It is a gift of his love for us. As we remember who we are and who is the center of our life together, we must confess that a family reunion is complete only when the whole family is at the table rejoicing in the name which has brought them together, Jesus Christ ...

4595. Easter 3

Luke 24:13-35, Acts 2:14a, 36-41, 1 Peter 1:17-23

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... by the Holy Spirit to be Christian disciples. Collect Almighty God, who gives your Holy Spirit to those who repent and are baptized: Make faith a genuine response in our hearts; that, by true repentance, and a sincere acceptance of baptism, we may receive the gift of your Holy Spirit. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Many facts prevent us from believing the truth about ourselves, Father. We live in a Christian nation; we have a Christian background; and we support the church. But the ...

4596. Sharing Your Safety

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Children's Sermon

... it is lonely if you do not have someone with whom to share. That’s what Noah found out when he spent 562 days on an ark in the world covered with water. We thank God for sharing our world with many others, and we want to share God’s gifts to us with all who need them. God bless you. Amen

4597. Parking Lots and Traffic Jams

John 3:1-21

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Richard L. Thulin

... is here of his own choosing. You and I do not have to beg for bread and wine. Nor do we have to snatch them quickly when they appear to make sure that we get some. The bread and the wine are given to us willingly and joyfully as a gift. In this meal Jesus does not sit above us somehow, watching us eat and drink. Nor does he simply come and stand or sit alongside us. He comes "down" to us in the deepest meaning of that word. In bread and wine, humble bits of food and drink, he enters ...

4598. Victory and Protest

John 6:25-59

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Richard L. Thulin

... and celebration are sung as communicants go forward to share the bread and wine. There are smiles on the faces of men and women as they receive the food and drink. The eucharistic prayers offer thanksgiving for all that God has accomplished. Surely God's gift of forgiveness has not been forgotten, but our praise of God has been extended and is more fully expressed. In a eucharist of praise, we honor all that God has done, is doing, and will yet do. This work encompasses past, present and future. It includes ...

4599. The Promise of the Savior King

Isaiah 11:1-16

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... that a descendant of David would sit upon the throne in Jerusalem in perpetuity. This ruler will be anointed with the Spirit of God to act righteously and faithfully so this reign will produce peace in the whole earth. The savior king is promised the gift necessary to rule in the political, military, and administration-of-justice spheres, in light of God's purpose for the monarch and the people who are ruled. The necessary wisdom, counsel, and might will be provided for the king to serve according to the ...

4600. Christmas Vision

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... . The musician with dissonanance and harmony, brass and strings and percussion shows us life in depth and emotion. Vision. The poet expresses in concrete, abstract words depth and meaning and joy. Vision. In the midst of all the glamour and the gaiety and the gifts of this season, entertain the possibility of vision. God is present with us in grandeur and glory. The Messiah in the Manger, the Crucified Christ on the Cross, the Risen and Reigning Lord still comes to us in our world. God still is present ...

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